Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] one place in American society where Mormons have found an unusual degree of acceptance – in agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the CIA, which see Mormons as particularly desirable recruits and have a reputation for hiring a disproportionate number of people who belong to the church. While this comes […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the activities of their Soviet bloc intelligence opponents. Then an anti-communist intelligence officer, Michal Goleniewski, working with Polish intelligence, began leaking them information. Code-named ‘Sniper’ by the CIA, he was by far the most important source the US had during the Cold War and exposed a large number of Soviet operations and identified dozens […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] of the first issue,24 Garrison is very much closer to Parapolitics and Covert Action than it is to Paranoia, The Realist and Steamshovel. The Intelligence Party ‘The CIA is emerging as a domestic political party. I don’t mean this in a conspiratorial sense (though it has conspiratorial implications), and I don’t mean it literally. […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] If you copy America, you get America. The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. How many genuine vaccination drives […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] refugee camps, providing shelter, food and healthcare. But other areas of its activity ‘were directly tied to the intelligence community’. The IRC ran the camps while the CIA trawled them for intelligence sources and for recruits for the various paramilitary outfits it ran. And, on top of that the IRC was also instrumental in […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] and deniability ensured. A specific step in enabling this course of action to be adopted came in 1949 with National Security Council Directive 10/2. This empowered the CIA to spend money on whatever or whomever it felt would be beneficial to US interests without having to explain its decisions, leave any trace of them, […]